· Private foundation
The Code Family Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
Read this first · the figures below need context
94% of The Code Family Foundation’s FY2024 grant dollars went to Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2024 names 2 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2019, the last year The Code Family Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 40 organizations, $2M. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2019
- Under $10k29 grants · $118k
- $10k–50k23 grants · $338k
- $50k–250k5 grants · $414k
- $250k+2 grants · $920k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CHRISTIAN LIFE MINISTRIES | $650,000 |
| EL SHADDAI MINISTRIES INTERNATIONAL | $270,000 |
| YOUNG LIFE | $113,750 |
| GAP COMMUNITY CENTER | $112,500 |
| ABUNDANT LIFE REVIVAL MINISTRIES | $75,000 |
| BY THE HAND CLUB FOR KIDS | $62,500 |
| CATALYST SCHOOLS | $50,000 |
| CURE INTERNATIONAL | $47,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF IOWA FOUNDATION | $25,135 |
| BREAKTHROUGH URBAN MINISTRIES | $25,000 |
| KANAKUK MINISTRIES | $20,000 |
| OVERCOMERS CHRISTIAN MINISTRIES UGANDA | $16,000 |
| HELPING HANDS MINISTRIES | $15,000 |
| ALL GOD'S CHILDREN FOUNDATION | $15,000 |
| SUNSHINE GOSPEL MINISTRIES | $12,500 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $544k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 90% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
59 repeat relationships — 52 still active in FY2019, 7 since wound down; 11 grantees were first funded in FY2019 (too recent to call). Read against FY2019, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 50% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $125k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
Backed again, and grew
- CSCATALYST SCHOOLS3× · 2017–2019 · $450k · revenue +59%
- YLYOUNG LIFE3× · 2017–2019 · $449k · revenue +59%
- BTBy The Hand Club For Kids3× · 2017–2019 · $413k · revenue +54%
Funded once
- MOMUSEUM OF THE BIBLEone grant, 2017 · $50k · revenue -54%
- OCOVERCOMERS CHRISTIAN MINISTRYone grant, 2017 · $50k
- ITINTERNATIONAL TEAMSone grant, 2018 · $45k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Christianity Today is a global community inspired by evangelical conviction to advance the stories and ideas of the kingdom of God. Our mission is to elevate the storytellers and sages of the global church.
As part of the body of Christ, to see that every young person in every people group in every nation has the opportunity to make an informed decision to be a follower of Jesus Christ and become a part of the local church.
The international leadership institute (ili) changes history by accelerating the spread of the gospel through training and mobilizing leaders of leaders to reach their nations. ili accomplishes this purpose through cutting edge leadership…
As a christian university, we provide education and research opportunities preparing global leaders to partner with local communities.
Christian Mission for the United Nations Community is a ministry aimed at leading the head of every nation and other top leaders to faith in Jesus Christ and helping them to walk in dependence upon God as they discharge the…
Biglife international inc. empowers believers worldwide to reach and disciple their own people for jesus christ.
To get the good news to every nation this generation by showing and sharing god's love by providing opportunities and supporting christian missionaries in over fifty seven countries around the world.
With a desire to see the Gospel proclaimed in all nations, we exist to make and multiply disciples of the next generation through the vehicles of church-planting missions and missional leadership training.
Kingdom advisors is a discipleship ministry serving christian financial professionals. the organization encourages, educates, and empowers christian financial professionals with biblical wisdom to be effective disciples of jesus christ in…
Equipping and enabling believers worldwide to conduct church-based evangelism projects to reach unbelievers and make disciples.
Crossroads combines innovative clinical counseling with a redemptive worldview to restore people to emotional health, relational unity, and a hopeful future.
To provide resources, training, and continuing support to leaders in the us and around the world in order that they may help others find freedom in christ.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Young Life and the most unlike its peers is Museum of the Bible. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 30 years old; the field is 11. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 28% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 19% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
53 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 53 of the 91 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC ↗
- Who funds ABUNDANT LIFE REVIVAL MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds CATALYST SCHOOLS ↗
- Who funds YOUNG LIFE ↗
- Who funds By The Hand Club For Kids ↗
- Who funds BREAKTHROUGH URBAN MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds CHRISTIAN LIFE MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds GAP COMMUNITY CENTER ↗
- Who funds OPPORTUNITY INTERNATIONAL INC D/B/A OPPORTUNITY INTERNATIONAL-US ↗
- Who funds CURE INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
- Who funds AGC LTD ↗
- Who funds The Progressive Manor House ↗
- Who funds SUNSHINE GOSPEL MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds CIRCLE URBAN MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds LYDIA HOME ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL JUSTICE MISSION ↗
- Who funds Kanakuk Ministries ↗
- Who funds SERVANTWORKS INC ↗
- Who funds GRIP OUTREACH FOR YOUTH ↗
- Who funds HELPING HANDS MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds KIDS ACROSS AMERICA ↗
- Who funds MUSEUM OF THE BIBLE ↗
- Who funds InterVarsity Christian FellowshipUSA ↗
- Who funds GLOBAL MEDIA OUTREACH ↗
- Who funds Dare 2 Share Ministries ↗
- Who funds CHICAGO FELLOWSHIP ↗
- Who funds Entrenuity Inc ↗
- Who funds Inner City Impact ↗
- Who funds SERGE GLOBAL INC ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: The MacKenzie Family Foundation · United Way of Metropolitan Chicago Inc · Servant Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Collier Community Foundation Inc · Christian Community Foundation Inc · Hallene Family Foundation Inc · Kehe Cares Foundation Inc · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · The Chicago Community Trust · Barnabas Foundation
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization The Code Family Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- City Year Inc — 11% of income from government
- Citizen Schools Inc — 8% of income from government
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.
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